{"product_id":"ordained-women-in-the-early-church-9781421400372","title":"Ordained Women in the Early Church","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMadigan and Osiek assemble relevant material from both Western and Eastern Christendom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe richly varied texts introduce us to a remarkable group of women. -- Rev. Dr. John Binns Church Times 2005 An invaluable resource for all who are interested in the historical evidence relating to the ordination of women as deacons and presbyters in the early centuries up to roughly the sixth century. -- Mary Coloe Review of Biblical Literature 2006 Kevin Madigan and Carolyn Osiek's collection and analysis of the historical documents on the topic is important and relevant to church historians and modern church leaders alike. Review of Biblical Literature 2006 Kevin Madigan and Carolyn Osiek... have done the important work of bringing together into one volume all known Greek and Latin references to women deacons and presbyters. -- Andrew Gregory Church of England Newspaper 2006 Thanks to this work, most of the pieces of the jig saw of the history of women in the diaconate are laid out before us. Distinctive Diaconate 2006 A masterful compilation and translation. -- Phyllis Zagano Theological Studies 2006 Madigan and Osiek bring considerable scholarly expertise and experience to this difficult task. -- Bonnie Flessen Currents in Theology and Mission 2007 A thorough, well-researched, and lucid documentary history. -- Daniel Keating Henoch 2007 Finally, readers have a single compendium in English of the evidence that women did hold church office as deacon, presbyter, and bishop, not simply as spouses of male officeholders and not in heretical sects but in their own right and in the Catholic Church. -- Maureen A. Tilley Catholic Biblical Quarterly 2008 No academic library (and particularly seminary library) will want to be without this book. -- Leslie Baynes Religious Studies Review An excellent resource for deeper study of original texts as well as for informed entry into current ecclesial discussions of practice and polity. -- Francine Cardman Journal of Religion 2009 It is impossible to come away from this excellent, erudite and evenly argued book without some very uncomfortable questions about how women in the church have from the beginning been fitted into wider society's conception of what is appropriate and expedient. -- Morwenna Ludlow New Blackfriars 2009 Madigan and Osiek have produced the best, most comprehensive, and extremely useful documentary history to date regarding the ordination of women in the early church. -- William Tabbernee Catholic Historical Review 2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eSource Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e2. New Testament Texts and Their Patristic Commentators\u003cbr\u003eRomans 16:1–2\u003cbr\u003e1 Timothy 3:8–11\u003cbr\u003e1 Timothy 5:3–13\u003cbr\u003e3. Women Deacons in the East: Literary Texts, Literary Allusions, Inscriptions\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Texts and Allusion\u003cbr\u003eInsciptions\u003cbr\u003e4. Women Deacons in the East: Canons and Comments on Church Practice\u003cbr\u003eDidascalia and Apostolic Constitutions\u003cbr\u003eOther Sources before the Sixth Century, in Chronological Order\u003cbr\u003eJustinian, Novellae\u003cbr\u003e5. Women Deacons in the East: Later Texts\u003cbr\u003e6. Women Deacons in the West\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Texts\u003cbr\u003eInscriptions\u003cbr\u003eCanons and Comments on Church Practice\u003cbr\u003e7. Women Deacons: Testamentum Domini Nostri Jesu Christi and Related Texts\u003cbr\u003e8. Women Presyters\u003cbr\u003eIn the East\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Texts, Canonical, and Legendary\u003cbr\u003eInscriptions\u003cbr\u003eIn the West\u003cbr\u003eWives of Clerics\u003cbr\u003eThree North Africans against Women Presbyters\u003cbr\u003eCanons and Episcopal Letters\u003cbr\u003eInscriptions\u003cbr\u003e9. Conclusions\u003cbr\u003eAppendixes\u003cbr\u003eA. Locations of Deacon Inscriptions\u003cbr\u003eB. Locations of Deacons in Literary Sources\u003cbr\u003eC. Locations of Presbyters\u003cbr\u003eD. Family Relationships Identified for Women in Inscriptions\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Ancient Names\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Deaconesses, Presbyters, and Episcopa\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Modern Authors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408104759639,"sku":"9781421400372","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ordained-women-in-the-early-church-9781421400372","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}